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- From: tdphette@mke.ab.com (Thad Phetteplace x4461)
- Subject: Re: Dumping OW and running X11R5(Was: Speed of Openwin 3)
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- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 14:58:31 GMT
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- daryl@piano.adept.ih.att.com (55000-Daryl Monge(ih1439)392) writes:
- :
- : One of problem to use X11R5 to replace OW2/3 is some of the useful
- : applications in OW2/3 do not work, such as mailtool (a extreamly useful one),
- :
- : I use mailtool all the time with the X11R5/olwm. Absolutely no problems
- : of any kind.
- :
- : The biggest problem I have seen is OW applications expecting fonts that don't
- : match in X11. The spreadsheet WingZ and project planning too Autoplan both
- : have font problems.
- :
- : Is there a solution to the above?
- :
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- I think all you need to do is copy your openwindows fonts into your X11R5
- font directory and rebuild your font database. Check out the man pages on
- xlsfonts and bldfamily.
-
- Hope this helps,
-
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- Thad Phetteplace
- Network Systems Analyst, Allen-Bradley Co.
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